John Lubbock
@jwsal.bsky.social
writer / filmmaker / human rights / Wikipedia / Turkish stuff / he/him / PhD about AI and journalism @ @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
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I couldn't have come up with this in my wildest parodies of Labour.
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid on.ft.com/3KjmNae
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid
Chancellor is under pressure from some Labour MPs to raise levies on business this week
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I couldn't have come up with this in my wildest parodies of Labour.
I'm not sure this makes sense. In 2003, the US was producing much less oil than it was consuming. With shale gas, that's no longer the case. The US doesn't need to invade Venezuela for its oil.
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I'm not sure this makes sense. In 2003, the US was producing much less oil than it was consuming. With shale gas, that's no longer the case. The US doesn't need to invade Venezuela for its oil.
I find it hard to believe the US would put boots on the ground in Venezuela right now, but if they want to end the American Empire with Iraq 2.0, sure, go ahead, knock yourselves out.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I find it hard to believe the US would put boots on the ground in Venezuela right now, but if they want to end the American Empire with Iraq 2.0, sure, go ahead, knock yourselves out.
I went to the same shitty private school as this guy and there was loads of racism, misogyny and homophobia there in the late 90s and early 2000s too. The idea it wasn’t even worse in the 70s is idiotic.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I went to the same shitty private school as this guy and there was loads of racism, misogyny and homophobia there in the late 90s and early 2000s too. The idea it wasn’t even worse in the 70s is idiotic.
Need to get into Battlefield or CoD and use this as my avi to make people think I’m Assad.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Need to get into Battlefield or CoD and use this as my avi to make people think I’m Assad.
This is what happens when you award power based on loyalty not merit.
David Lammy has reportedly named Bill Cosby as one of his role models
David Lammy 'names Bill Cosby as role model'
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is what happens when you award power based on loyalty not merit.
When your local council shuts all your libraries next year and the parks fall into disrepair, it will be because they have a legal duty to house homeless people in a city with a gigantic housing crisis, where all the worst accommodation is being rented back to councils by slum landlords.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When your local council shuts all your libraries next year and the parks fall into disrepair, it will be because they have a legal duty to house homeless people in a city with a gigantic housing crisis, where all the worst accommodation is being rented back to councils by slum landlords.
Nightlife in London is absolutely dying because of the cost of living. In Brixton, some of the biggest pubs like the PoW and Dogstar have closed recently, leaving big holes on high streets. www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/11/brix...
Brixton’s popular Prince of Wales pub and the Brixton Storeys rooftop club have now closed with immediate effect
In another devastating blow for Brixton’s beleaguered night economy, the Prince of Wales and the Brixton Storeys rooftop venue on Coldharbour Lane have suddenly closed.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nightlife in London is absolutely dying because of the cost of living. In Brixton, some of the biggest pubs like the PoW and Dogstar have closed recently, leaving big holes on high streets. www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/11/brix...
Cute how modern fascism has swapped the aesthetic of a BDSM-inclined riding instructor for 'football casual'.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Cute how modern fascism has swapped the aesthetic of a BDSM-inclined riding instructor for 'football casual'.
Practically this can't happen now because we have a timid government afraid to do anything radical and it would probably need another referendum in which the country would tear itself apart all over again.
britain i swear to fuck just ask the EU to take you back, sure we'll be insufferably smug about it and probably force you to get off the pound because we're feeling like being bastards but at least youll have, like, jobs and any kind of perspective
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Practically this can't happen now because we have a timid government afraid to do anything radical and it would probably need another referendum in which the country would tear itself apart all over again.
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Making these changes retroactively is a fundamentally unethical thing. Moving the goalposts. It’s cheating
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Making these changes retroactively is a fundamentally unethical thing. Moving the goalposts. It’s cheating
I'm not sure if my institution will still be there by the time I finish the PhD I'm starting.
I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm not sure if my institution will still be there by the time I finish the PhD I'm starting.
Out of all the apps, nextdoor’s got to be the most depressing. It’s just requests for cleaners mixed with reports of murders and people being depressed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Out of all the apps, nextdoor’s got to be the most depressing. It’s just requests for cleaners mixed with reports of murders and people being depressed.
This will reduce the numbers of foreign students coming to the UK and simply leave a bigger hole in the higher education budget which the government will probably fix with higher student fees for the rest of us.
"reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student university fees"
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This will reduce the numbers of foreign students coming to the UK and simply leave a bigger hole in the higher education budget which the government will probably fix with higher student fees for the rest of us.
Found the worst Wicked tie-in product.
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Found the worst Wicked tie-in product.
These days, when you graduate from university, they'll try to upsell you on all kinds of shit to make extra money.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
These days, when you graduate from university, they'll try to upsell you on all kinds of shit to make extra money.
Really hate it when my medieval village has 295 surplus apples but they’re not being supplied to my burgage plots.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Really hate it when my medieval village has 295 surplus apples but they’re not being supplied to my burgage plots.
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Applying this to refugees already here self-evidently can't deter them from coming. But it will make their lives harder by prolonging their temporary status, making it harder to get jobs and accommodation and settle down properly. It would be a deliberate anti-integration policy. Why?
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Applying this to refugees already here self-evidently can't deter them from coming. But it will make their lives harder by prolonging their temporary status, making it harder to get jobs and accommodation and settle down properly. It would be a deliberate anti-integration policy. Why?
Interesting event in Parliament tonight with Kurdish-Iranian PJAK assembly member Siamand Moeini and Labour peer Lord Watts on the position of the Kurds in a post-Islamic Republic of Iran.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Interesting event in Parliament tonight with Kurdish-Iranian PJAK assembly member Siamand Moeini and Labour peer Lord Watts on the position of the Kurds in a post-Islamic Republic of Iran.
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The Draft Resolution
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Draft Resolution
Managed to drop my phone and crack the screen. Apparently on iPhones if you damage the casing a little bit too, so it's impossible to change the screen, the whole phone is a write off and you can't access any of the data at all. Seems like a weird design fault to me.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Managed to drop my phone and crack the screen. Apparently on iPhones if you damage the casing a little bit too, so it's impossible to change the screen, the whole phone is a write off and you can't access any of the data at all. Seems like a weird design fault to me.
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White House says Epstein emails released to smear Trump reut.rs/3WSX1MH
White House says Epstein emails released to smear Trump
The White House accused Democrats in the House of Representatives of releasing emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday to smear President Donald Trump.
reut.rs
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
White House says Epstein emails released to smear Trump reut.rs/3WSX1MH
Bond’s brain is still alive when they find his mangled corpse and they build him an exoskeleton so he’s like Robocop but his prime directive is making MI6 look cool rather than the reality that it’s just a bunch of nerds with computers.
they can have James Bond just be a sentient jar filled with teeth and plasma
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Bond’s brain is still alive when they find his mangled corpse and they build him an exoskeleton so he’s like Robocop but his prime directive is making MI6 look cool rather than the reality that it’s just a bunch of nerds with computers.
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“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...